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07 February 2016

Sunday Stamps II - 60


2003, Slovakia,  Biennial of Illustration Bratislava

The Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) is an international competitive exhibition of illustrations for children's books.  Jana Kiselová-Siteková 'creates ethereal and fragile illustrations using fine colours, unusual techniques and microdrawings'. This stamps shows Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina (Palculienka in Slovak) which won a Golden Apple award for the BIB in 2001.

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7 comments:

Bob Scotney said...

Beautiful stamp. I even recognised Thumbelina.

Ana said...

I love books' illustrations! And ahh, I loved this book when I was a child!! It was Палечка in Macedonian :)

thank you for sharing this! Has brought some lovely memories!!

Heleen said...

Such a fine and lovely stamp.
I totally forgot this story, despite of the fact that we read a lot of Anderson's stories as a child, and should look it up, I think in Dutch it/she is named Duimelijntje.

FinnBadger said...
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FinnBadger said...

'FRagile' is the perfect way to describe the art on this stamp. Very pretty.

Mail Adventures said...

I'd like to visit this exhibition, wow!

Joy said...

How wonderfully the artist makes her look small. I like the thought of a Golden Apple award.